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Fragment with Mounted Hunter Spearing Animals

before 1982

Iran, style of the Abbasid period (750–1258) or Buyid period

(945–1055)

Silk: lampas weave

Overall: 39 x 22 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.22

Location

not on view

Description

The design originally consisted of a Tree of Life flanked by paired ibexes being pursued by a royal hunter. The latter, mounted on a fantastic creature, wears a Sasanian crown and holds a long spear. The fragment preserves most of the design to the right of the central tree, but only half of an ibex to the left of the tree.

Provenance
?-1982
(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1982-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55. Mentioned: cat. no. 70, p. 53 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.22